Welcome to the Polynational War Memorial, a proposal for a war memorial for all wars since World War II, which will include the names of more than 10 million killed soldiers and civilians. This site includes information about the project and is a collection of war memorials and monuments.
A new section - Presentations - has been added to this website. It includes information about the public presentations of the project. New pages have been created for acknowledgements and the design proposal, and specially the latter section will be updated with a lot of new material in the coming months.
You can now preview the video that explains the program of the Interfaith Centre that was designed by Testbedstudio with a soundtrack by Fred Saboonchi. Just take a look below or at this page.
NEWS
EXCERPT FROM PART 3: THE INTERFAITH CENTRE
posted: 2009-05-03 | Stockholm
EXCERPT FROM PART 3: THE INTERFAITH CENTRE
This is an excerpt from the video "Polynational War Memorial, Part 3: the Interfaith Centre". The Quicktime player is needed to view the video.
The video explains the program of the Interfaith Centre that has been designed by Testbedstudio. Soundtrack by Fred Saboonchi and voice by Lisette Merenciana. Read more about the Interfaith Centre.
2ND DESIGN PROJECT: THE UNIMUNE
posted: 2008-09-27 | Stockholm
The second design project commssioned for the Polynational War Memorial is the combined university, museum and conference facility for negotiations, which is referred to as the Unimune (university, museum, negotiations). This commisson was given to the Berlin based architect group Raumlabor, which operates in the fields of urban design, architectural design, build, interactive environments and research since 1999. The group collaborated with the designers Büro Blickpunkt on this project. Read more
WANÅS 2008: LOSS
posted: 2008-05-12 | Stockholm
May 18 - October 19
Wanås, Knislinge, Sweden
The exhibition Loss presents The Polynational War Memorial for the first time to the public in full scale. The master plan that outlines the various institutions and the memorial in this architectonical proposal have been configured for the special geographical features of the park.
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MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, or simply Holocaust-Mahnmal in German) opened on May 10 2005 in central Berlin. The memorial, which was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman, was built on a 19.073 m2 large field only 100 meters away from Berlin's main symbol, the Brandenburger Gate. |
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Polynational War Memorial is a process-based, multidisciplinary and long-term art project with the objective of creating a healing architectural and sculptural object - a war memorial - commemorating fallen soldiers and killed civilians in all wars fought from World War II up to today.
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INTRODUCTION
SPONSORS
THE POLYNATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT IS SPONSORED BY:
